TOURIST RESORTS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 247, 18 October 1937, Page 8

TOURIST RESORTS

LIQUOR LICENCES CATERING FOR VISITORS [ Per Press Association. ] CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 16. granting of licences to sell liquor to tourist resorts in licence areas is to be urged upon the Government by the South Island Travel Association. The question was introduced at the annual meeting of the association last evening by Mr. E. C. Lawrence (Pelorus Sound Tourist Bureau). It was useless trying to get tourists from overseas unless they were to be provided with the facilities to which they were accustomed, said Mr. Lawrence. It was essential that all facilities that were available abroad should exist in New Zealand resorts, as otherwise the efforts of the association would not be wholly successful. He suggested that temporary relief or this year only should be granted until the whole problem could be dealt with. Mr. J. Manson (Hanmer Springs) said that in private hotels at large resorts the manager had no control over the liquor consumed on the premises. It was not the overseas tourist who brought it in, but the local person. At this hostel, said Mr. Manson, a revenue of over £4O a year was obtained from the sale of empty bottles which people left in the backyard. The motion was carried unanimously.